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\VlLLARD F. RICHARDS, OF BUFFALO, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOULDCOUPLER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LOCOMOTIV E-TENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,496, dated May 5,1896. I

Application filed January 9, 1896- Be it known that LVVILLARD F.RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in thecounty of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in LocomotiveTenders, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an attachment for loco1notive-tenders.

The mail-cars now in use, like the wellknown passenger vestibule-cars,are gener ally provided with vestibules and extensible hoods, which formclosed passage-ways with the hoods of similar adjoining cars. When sucha car is coupled to the tender of a locomotive, its front hood, whichfaces the rear wall of the tender, is not only temporarily use less, butobjectionable, because it provides shelter and a hiding-place for trampsand other persons in the habit of riding stealthily on railway-trains.

The object of my invention is to provide the locomotive-tender with ahood or inclosure of simple construction for effectually closing thefront or idle hood of the car coupled thereto, so as to excludeunauthorized persons from said hood and also check the lat oral orrocking motion of the car.

In the accompanying drawings, consisting of three sheets, Figure 1 is afragmentary scctional side elevation of a locomotive-tender providedwith my improvement. Fig. 2 is a rear View thereof. Fig. 3 is ahorizontalsection in line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. i is ahorizontal section inline 4. 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevation of the bracketand supporting-frame. Fig. 6 is a front elevation thereof.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A is the body of the tender, which may be B is an upright transverseframe or support secured to the rear end of the tender, preferably byupright longitudinal webs or plates 0, of sheet metal,which are fastenedat their front and rear edges to the rear wall of the tender-body andthe front side of the supporting-frame by angle-irons or other suitablemeans. This frame B is rectangular in form and composed of stiles orupright side SerialNo. 574,846. (No model.)

pieces I) and a lintel or transverse top piece I), which connects theupper portions of the side pieces. The lower ends of these side piecesare seated in sockets D, formed in brackets D secured to the rear sideof the end sill E of the tender-body, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. Theside pieces I) are secured in said sockets by horizontal bolts f,passing through the side pieces and through lugs or ears f, projectingupwardly from the inner walls of the sockets. The portion of thesupporting-frame which extendsabove the tender is firmlybraced byuprightlongitudinal webs or plates G, of sheet metal. These plates aresecured at their front edges to the side pieces of the frame B and attheir lower ends to the top plate H of the tender-body, as shown inFigs. 1 and 3.

I is a flexible or extensible hood supported on the rear side of theupright frame B and adapted to coincide with the flexible hood of anopposing mail-car or other hooded car, so as to close the open end ofsaid opposing hood when the car is coupled to the tender and form atight inclosure therewith.

The flexible hood may be of any suitable or well-known construction andis made of the same dimensions as the hoods of the ordinaryvestibule-cars. The hood shown in the drawings is constructed with thecustomary accordion or bellows folds and is secured at its inner end tothe rear side of the upright frame B and provided at its outer end withan open face-plate J, adapted to bear against the corresponding plate ofan opposing hood.

The face-plate of the hood is preferably connected at its lower end withan oscillating spring-buffer K of any suitable or ordinary construction,so as to be capable of assuming an angular position when the tenderpasses around curves, and thereby maintain a close joint with theopposing face-plate. The upper portion of the faceplate is preferablysuspended from the frame B by overhanging links L, and its lower end isconnected with the buffer-plate by laterally-swinging links m, as shownand described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 453,782,granted June 9, 1891, to T. A. Bissell. Any other suitable connectionsmay, however, be employed between the face-plate and the upright frame Band between the face-plate and the buffer.

The connecting plates or webs C G maybe inclosed by a rigidcovering-plate or hood N, of sheet metal or other suitable material, asmost clearly shown in Fig. The upper portion of this plate isapproximately U-shaped and incloses the upper connecting-plates G, whileits wings or lower portions are contracted, so as to fit between theframe 13 and the rear wall of the tender, as shown in Fig. 3. Thisinclosin g plate is secured to the tender and supporting-frame byangle-irons or other fastenings.

WVhen a mail or other car having a vestibule and hood is coupled to myimproved locomotive-tender, the face-plate of the carhood abuts againstthe face-plate of the tender-hood, thereby closing the front hood of thecar as well as the tender-hood and preventing unauthorized persons fromentering the same, while at the same time obstructing or filling aconsiderable portion of the space between the tender and the adjoiningcar and rendering it practically impossible for such persons to stealpassage at this point without detection, while at the same timeprotecting the inside of the vestibule against the weather and checkingthe swaying or rocking motion of the cars.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination with the body and the rearframe-sill of a locomotive-tender, of fixed supports projectingrearwardly from said sill, an upright vestibule-frame secured with itslower end to said supports and connected above said supports with thetender-body, and a flexible hood secured to said frame, and projectingrearwardly therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the body of a locomotive-tender provided at itsrear end with upright supporting-sockets, of a separate upright framehaving stiles or side pieces seatedin said sockets, webs or platesconnecting said frame with the body of the tender, and a flexible hoodsecured at its inner end to said frame, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the body of a locomotive-tender provided at itsrear end with upright supporting-sockets, of a separate upright framehaving stiles or side pieces seated in said sockets, webs or platesconnecting said frame with the body of the tender, a flexible hoodsecured at its inner end to said frame, and a hood or covering-plateinclosing said connecting-plates, substantially as set forth.

WVitness my hand this 13th day of November, 1895.

XVILLARD F. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

JNo. J. BONNER, CARL F. GEYER.

